Research Catalog

Title

Observed HR diagrams and stellar evolution : the interplay between observational constraints and theory : proceedings of a conference held in Coimbra, Portugal, 18-22 June 2001 / edited by Thibault Lejeune and João Fernandes.

Publication

San Francisco, Calif. : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, ©2002.

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Additional Authors

• Lejeune, Thibault.
• Fernandes, João.

Description

xx, 625 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 274

Uniform Title

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 274.

Alternative Title

Interplay between observational constraints and theory

Subject

• Stars > Evolution > Congresses
• HR diagrams > Congresses
• HR diagrams
• Stars > Evolution
• Sterren
• Hertzsprung-Russell-diagram
• STELLAR EVOLUTION
• HERTZSPRUNG-RUSSELL DIAGRAM
• OBSERVATIONS
• STARS
• CONFERENCES

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Stellar modeling, a key issue for Physics and Astrophysics / A. Baglin -- Recent advances in rotating massive star models / G. Meynet and A. Maeder -- Blue Supergiants: Observational Constraints of Massive Star Evolution / N. Przybilla -- influence of diffusive mixing on the extension and duration of the blue loops phase in intermediate mass stars / P. Ventura -- Stellar Models that Treat Gravitational Settling and Radiative Acceleration Processes: Application to M92 / D. A. VandenBerg, O. Richard, G. Michaud and J. Richer -- Y[superscript 2] Isochrones / S. K. Yi, P. Demarque, Y.-C. Kim, Y.-W. Lee, C. H. Ree and T. Lejeune -- Theoretical uncertainties in Red Giant Branch stellar models / M. Salaris -- M Type and Carbon Stars on the Upper Asymptotic Giant Branch of Stellar Populations / A. Lancon and M. Mouhcine -- Cepheids in the SMC: Blue Loops and Mass-Luminosity Relation / D. Cordier, Y. Lebreton, M.-J. Goupil, T. Lejeune and J.-P. Beaulieu -- uncertain evolution of blue looping He burning stars / P. Sestito, V. Castellani, S. Degl'Innocenti and P. G. Prada Moroni -- Prospects and Results of Asteroseismology / M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro -- Asteroseismic analysis of the structure of HR1217 / M. Cunha, J. Fernandes and M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro -- Cool Stellar Atmospheres / P. H. Hauschildt, F. Allard, A. Schweitzer and E. Baron -- Synthetic spectra for pulsating red giants: status, limitations and applications / J. Hron, B. Aringer, R. Cautschy-Loidl, S. Hofner and U. G. Jorgensen -- Magnetic stars of the upper main sequence / S. Bagnulo -- Near Infrared Imaging Polarimetry of Proto-Planetary Nebula OH231.8+4.2 / A. Ahmad, T. Gledhill, A. McCall and M. Takami -- Spectral Energy Distribution of Blue Stragglers in the Ultraviolet / J. A. Caballero and C. Morales -- Determination of Fundamental Parameters / R. Cayrel
• Stellar Surface Gravity Determinations from Spectral Energy Distribution, Photometry and Evolutionary Tracks / C. Morossi, M. Chavez, P. Di Marcantonio, M. Franchini and M. L. Malagnini -- Catalogue of [Fe/H] determinations for FGK stars: 2001 edition as working-tool for observational (logT[subscript eff], M[subscript bol]) diagrams / G. Cayrel de Strobel and C. Soubiran -- BaSeL Interactive web server: a tool for stellar physics / T. Lejeune -- BaSeL 3.1 models: metallicity calibration and application / P. Westera, M. Samland, G. Bruzual and R. Buser -- Stromgren Color-Temperature Relations for Cool Stars / J. L. Clem, D. A. VandenBerg, F. Grundahl and R. A. Bell -- Atmospheric parameters for non-interacting eclipsing binaries: preliminary results from synthetic photometry / E. Lastennet, F. Cuisinier and T. Lejeune -- Temperature predictions for dust embedded AGB stars: how far can we go with synthetic near-infrared photometry? / F. Lastennet, S. Lorenz-Martins, F. Cuisinier and T. Lejeune -- Binary Star Data as Constraints on Stellar Models / J. Andersen -- Constraints derived from binary systems calibration: some examples / G. Berthomieu, P. Morel, J. Provost and F. Thevenin -- Measuring the main sequence spread: a new mathematical approach / J. Fernandes, J. A. Ferreira and M. F. Patricio -- Double-lined eclipsing binaries: probe for stellar evolution models / D. Kovaleva -- Significant discrepancies between stellar evolution models and solar-type eclipsing and visual binaries? / E. Lastennet, J. Fernandes, E. Oblak and D. Valls-Gabaud -- What can we learn from binaries in clusters? The example of the Hyades / Y. Lebreton, J. Fernandes and T. Lejeune
• Distances, Ages and Metal Abundances in Globular Cluster Dwarfs / R. Gratton, P. Bonifacio, A. Bragaglia, E. Carretta, V. Castellani, M. Centurion, A. Chieffi, R. Claudi, G. Clementini, F. D'Antona, S. Desidera, P. Francois, F. Grundahl, S. Lucatello, P. Molaro, L. Pasquini, M. Spite, F. Spite and O. Straniero -- Stromgren photometry and abundance variations in globular cluster giants the case of NGC 6752 / F. Grundahl, P. E. Nissen, M. Briley and S. Feltzing -- He and CNO abundances in massive stars: evidences of rotationally induced mixing / M. R. Villamariz and A. Herrero -- Beryllium abundances in old open clusters / S. Randich, F. Primas, L. Pasquini and R. Pallavicini -- Metallicity of the Outer Disk / M. L. Teixeira de Almeida and B. W. Carney -- Ca II Triplet as an Abundance Indicator / T. Bosler, T. Smecker-Hane and A. McWilliam -- Abundances in Globular Cluster Turn-Off stars: are they identical to those of Field Subdwarfs? / E. Carretta, R. Gratton, L. Pasquini and M. Centurion -- Metallicity of Old Open Clusters / E. Carretta, R. Gratton, A. Bragaglia, M. Tosi and G. Marconi -- Theoretical predictions about atmospheric lithium revisited / A. Imperio, V. Castellani and S. Degl'Innocenti -- Photometric properties of Stellar Populations in GGCs: a multi-wavelength approach / F. R. Ferraro -- HST snapshot project on Galactic Globular Clusters / G. Piotto, F. De Angeli, A. Recio Blanco, M. Riello, I. R. King, S. Djorgovski, M. Zoccali, I. Saviane, A. Renzini, G. Bono, S. Cassisi, G. Meylan and M. Rich -- new calibration of the RGB Tip as a Standard Candle / M. Bellazzini, F. R. Ferraro and E. Pancino -- new and cleaner colour-magnitude diagram for the metal-rich globular cluster NGC 6528 and the velocity dispersion in the Galactic Bulge / S. Feltzing and R. Johnson -- Environmental effects and mass segregation in GCs / G. Marconi, G. Andreuzzi, L. Pulone, V. Testa and R. Buonanno
• CCD Photometry of the Southern Open Cluster NGC 6134 / J. A. Ahumada -- Rotation of Hot Horizontal Branch Stars in Galactic Globular Clusters: the case of NGC 2808 / A. Recio Blanco, G. Piotto, A. Aparicio Juan, L. R. Bedin and S. Lucatello -- Trimodal Horizontal Branch of M75 (NGC 6864) / M. Catelan, J. Borissova, F. R. Ferraro, T. M. Corwin and H. A. Smith -- Rotation of Turn-off and Subgiant stars in Globular Clusters: NGC 104, NGC 6372, NGC 6752 / S. Lucatello and R. G. Gratton -- Observational and Theoretical Luminosity Functions of Globular Clusters / J. Montalban, F. D'Antona and G. Piotto -- Multicolour Main-Sequence Fitting to 47 Tucanae / S. Percival, M. Salaris, F. van Wyk and D. Kilkenny -- Unveiling the stellar Initial Mass Function of Galactic Globular Clusters / G. Piotto, L. R. Bedin, A. Recio Blanco, J. Montalban, F. D'Antona, S. Cassisi and D. Heggie -- Metal-Rich Globular Clusters and the Second-Parameter Effect: NGC 6388, NGC 6441 / B. J. Pritzl, H. A. Smith, M. Catelau and A. V. Sweigart -- On the white dwarf distances to Galactic globular clusters / M. Salaris, S. Cassisi, J. Isern, E. Garcia-Berro and S. Torres -- Galactic Globular Clusters Relative Ages: The Formation of the Milky Way / A. Rosenberg, A. Aparicio, G. Piotto and I. Saviane -- white dwarf cooling sequence in the old open cluster NGC 188 / G. Andrenzzi, H. B. Richer, M. Limongi and M. Bolte -- New Calibration of the Subdwarf Distance Scale / J. P. Fulbright and M. Bolte -- Using White Dwarfs as Chronometers in Star Clusters / J. Singh Kalirai -- Subgiant-Branch Color Function Ages for Globular Clusters / P. A. Bergbusch, P. B. Stetson and D. A. VandenBerg -- Age of the Metal-Rich Globular Cluster NGC 6352 / D. Faria and S. Feltzing -- Testing Overshoot with Intermediate-age Magellanic Cloud Clusters / J.-H. Woo, C. Gallart, P. Demarque, S. Yi and M. Zoccali
• Old Open Clusters as tracers of Galactic Evolution / A. Bragaglia, M. Tosi, G. Marconi and L. Di Fabrizio -- CMD's, RR Lyrae's, clump stars and reddening in the LMC / G. Clementini, A. Bragaglia, M. Maio, E. Carretta, R. Gratton and L. Di Fabrizio -- Combining wide-field, old main-sequence turnoff, color-magnitude diagrams and spectroscopy to derive accurate star formation histories: the LMC and Fornax / C. Gallart, F. Pont, R. Zinn and E. Hardy -- discovery of RRLyrae in M32 / J. Alonso-Garcia, M. Mateo and G. Worthey -- stellar content of the Galaxy: the white dwarf population / M. Cignoni, V. Castellani, S. Degl'Innocenti, S. Petroni and P. G. Prada Moroni -- UBV and Stromgren stellar photometry in the Eastern part of M31 / R. Kurtev, J. Borissova, L. Georgiev and M. Rosado -- F stars, metallicity, and the ages of red galaxies at z > 1 / L. A. Nolan -- Wide Field Imaging of the Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy / E. Pancino, M. Bellazzini and F. R. Ferraro -- MS-fitting method: a new determination of the distance of the LMC cluster NGC 1866 / G. Raimondo, E. Di Carlo, E. Brocato, V. Castellani and A. R. Walker -- Synthetic Color-Magnitude Diagram and the Star Formation History in the Local Group / A. Aparicio -- Color-Magnitude Diagram of composite stellar populations / L. Greggio -- Numerical Techniques and Histories of Galactic dSph Companions / A. E. Dolphin -- Star formation histories of late-type dwarfs outside the Local Group / M. Tosi, L. Greggio, F. Annibali and A. Aloisi -- 2MASS CDM of the Milky Way: Inferring Structure and History / A. A. Cole and M. D. Weinberg -- Tracing out the northern stream of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy with color-magnitude diagram techniques / D. Martinez-Delgado, M. A. Gomez-Flechoso and A. Aparicio -- AGB populations of Local Group galaxies / W. Nowotny, F. Kerschbaum, H. Olofsson and H. E. Schwarz
• Wide Field H-R diagrams of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies / L. Rizzi, E. V. Held, I. Saviane, Y. Momany, G. Clementini and G. Bertelli -- Coimbra Experiment: Group 1 analysis / C. Callart, A. Aparicio and G. Bertelli -- Coimbra Experiment: Group 2 analysis / L. Rizzi, E. V. Held, C. Bertelli, E. Nasi, I. Saviane and A. Vallenari -- Coimbra Experiment: Group 3 analysis / A. A. Cole, T. Smecker-Hane and G. Mandushev -- Coimbra Experiment: Group 4 analysis / A. E. Dolphin -- Coimbra Experiment: Group 5 analysis / D. Valls-Gabaud and X. Hernandez -- Coimbra Experiment: Group 6 analysis / J. Holtzman -- Coimbra Experiment: Group 7 analysis / J. Harris and D. Zaritsky -- Coimbra Experiment: Group 12 analysis / M. Tosi, L. Greggio and F. Annibali -- First Results of the Coimbra Experiment / E. D. Skillman and C. Gallart -- Uncertainties of Synthetic Integrated Colours / S. K. Yi -- On some Uncertainties in Evolutionary Synthesis Models / M. Cervino and D. Valls-Gabaud -- further step in stellar population synthesis modeling: high resolution SEDs on the basis of extensive empirical stellar libraries / A. Vazdekis -- Testing Population Synthesis Models with the Aid of Globular Cluster CMDs and Spectra / R. P. Schiavon, S. M. Faber, J. A. Rose and B. V. Castilho -- GAIA: Understanding the Galaxy / C. Gilmore -- Stellar Population Archive: Globular Clusters / D. R. Zurek, J. A. Ouellette, J. Hurley, M. Shara and H. Ferguson -- StarFISH: A Robust Synthetic Color-Magnitude Diagram Package / J. Harris and D. Zaritsky -- COROT ground-based photometric programme / P. J. Amado, R. Garrido, V. Costa, A. Rolland and I. Olivares -- Spectropolarimetry of Hydrogen Balmer lines with FORSI at the VLT / S. Bagnulo, T. Szeifert, G. Mathys, G. A. Wade and J. D. Landstreet -- BaSeL library as a basic tool to provide fundamental stellar parameters of future space missions: COROT and GAIA / E. Lastennet, T. Lejeune and F. Cuisinier
• Concluding Remarks / D. Valls-Gabaud.

ISBN

• 1583811168
• 9781583811160

LCCN

2002112086

OCLC

• ocm52259002
• 52259002
• SCSB-1292792

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library